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Sujatha's Srirangathu Devathaigal (Angels of Srirangam) is probably the original box of chocolates themed book. Impossible not to come out of the book without a feeling of having lived for years in the innocent, carefree, poetic, vittethi, savadaal times of the fifties and sixties. Some stories like 'Almost a Genius' and 'V.G.R' were so bloody damn impactful that I broke down and couldn't continue the book for the rest of the day.

These characters tickled me to the bone, flummoxed me with their degree of eccentricity, triggered nostalgia stemming from some of my summer vacations spent in small-town Tamil Nadu, brought back fond memories of stories recited by family members of the previous era and what not.

Impossible to correctly verbalize or coherently describe how deeply touched and thoroughly overwhelmed I am by this GEM of a book from Sujatha.Ī prolific and versatile writer who knows the minds of adolescents like the back of his hand, looks back fondly at his own adolescence in the picturesque and idyllic temple town of Srirangam in the fifties, and presents it as 14 short stories populated with with some of the most authentic and unforgettable characters ever to step out of the streets and onto paper.